Richard - I'd suggest that the only people who have any right to make folk music 'relevant' to the young are the young themselves. And they either will or won't -it's up to them.

Personally I don't give a stuff whether music is relevant on not - I don't even know what it means. And on this I suspect we'd agree.

fRoots still covers loads of traditional English/English speaking music, both in its articles and reviews. The forum is not the magazine, and in common with many forums where you have to be a member to post, there are fewer members and fewer posts, so presumably a narrower range of views. The forum sort of replaced the letters page in the magazine. Anything like that is not going to be as well populated and free ranging as a site like Mudcat.

Living Tradition still exists, I think, but only comes out occasionally.